Upcoming LSE Cities Public Lectures in January 2016

Speaker: Thomas Sugrue, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University.
Chair: Michael McQuarrie, Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Detroit is the largest American municipality to have declared bankruptcy. In this LSE Cities public lecture leading urban historian Thomas Sugrue examines the roots of the city’s fiscal crisis, its implications for urban finance, pensions, and the future of American cities, and examines the opportunities and obstacles that Detroit faces in its efforts to restructure its local government, redevelop its downtown and neighborhoods, and reorganize its troubled economy.

This event is free and open to the public to attend with no advance booking necessary. For more information please see the event page.
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Speaker: Lisa Björkman, Assistant Professor of Urban Affairs at University of Louisville
Chair: Suzanne Hall, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Senior Research Associate, LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science
Respondent: Ninad Pandit, Mellon Fellow in Cities and the Humanities, LSE Cities

Lisa Bjorkman will discuss her new book ‘Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai’ in this LSE Cities public lecture.The book focuses on the Indian city of Mumbai and looks at how two dazzling decades of urban development and roaring economic growth have presided over the steady deterioration – and sometimes spectacular breakdown – of the city’s water infrastructures. Getting water to come out of Mumbai’s pipes is an activity that requires continuous attention to and intimate knowledge of a complex and dynamic social and political hydraulic landscape.

This event is free and open to the public to attend with no advance booking necessary. For more information please see the event page.